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"The face of the operation is Briatore (referred to exclusively in the film by his colleagues and angry, chanting detractors as "Flavio"), an anthropomorphic radish who spends most of his time at QPR plotting to fire all of the managers."

At press time, Harbaugh had sent Michigan’s athletic department an envelope containing a heavily annotated seating chart, a list of the 63,000 seat views he had found unsatisfactory, and a glowing 70-page report on section 25, row 12, seat 9, which he claimed is “exactly what the great sport of football is all about.”

Going in the Way-Back machine. Some might object as Smith is currently 8th in career yards and 9th in completions, but the guy was hyped to the moon as the greatest combination of passing and running ability. Not hating, but man was he hyped in an era when you rarely heard about recruiting.

“True loyalty is that quality of service that grows under adversity and expands in defeat. Any street urchin can shout applause in victory, but it takes character to stand fast in defeat. One is noise — the other, loyalty.”

Hugely touted recruit coming in. Bo managed to to convince him to play football (WR) vs. signing a major league baseball contract, as he was drafted in the first round by the Red Sox. He never put up big numbers at Michigan though, averaging 23 catches or so his first 3 years, before getting 41 his last season for 700 something yards. However, he did end up laying some pro ball in the NFL for the Patriots and another team.

"You owe it to every man, woman, and child in the State of Michigan to beat the Buckeyes and silence their fans! Now go out there and make it happen!"

Not to mention.. He wore #1!!!!! gasp. And we all know the only non superstar to ever do that was Butterfingers. So he must have been a superstar. Partial /s.

GM had more than 20 catches per season, and averaged better than 22 yards a catch in his first two years. He averaged 19+ypc for his carreer. It was a different time then and he was very good at what the offense asked him to do.

Glad to see Antonio Bass on there. You get extra points for naming him captain. He is my favorite wolverine of all time. The what ifs???? If he never had that injury. Wish him the best in life and hopefully Amani Bass his younger brother commits to Michigan.

Henson was hyped up but I think he lived up to expectations in the games he did play in. Lets not forget he is the last UM QB to win in the Horse Shoe, and he won a Big Ten title, and won the bowl game he started in.

Because during his junior year, he had Thomas in the backfield and Terrell and Walker to throw to, and I'm sure there was a TE who I'm forgetting, and yet his team finished 9-3, with losses at Purdue, Northwestern and UCLA (when he was injured). Granted, the defense was awful that year, but I'm still upset at his decision to not tuck and run (taking the sack) and keep the clock running against Purdue instead of trying to complete a tough throw. There is no way Dorsch hits a FG from more than a yard further out.

I feel bad having Bass on the list given that it wasn't his fault he never met the hype. That knee injury was devastating.

Using the term Wildcat to describe a direct snap to anyone other than a QB is like calling any rock band from the early 90s Grunge.

I met a guy the other day that was one of the high school coaches of the kid you mention (Kapsner) behind Brady and Henson, he said it was a travesty that he never 'got a chance'. Hype or not, they were excited he got a great education/degree!

Henson was ultra-hyped coming in, probably more so than any player in the last two decades. But anyone who scores the game-clinching TD against Ohio on a naked bootleg should not be on this list. It's a travesty, I say!

Kevin Grady is my number one. I thought he was going to have an amazing career at Michigan. Agree with most people that Henson shouldn't be on the list and I am still fairly young but in my lifetime the QB's have to be Gutierrez and Forcier. Everyone has made some good suggestions so far. What do you guys think about Mike Williams the DB from the 07 class? Also, for the 08 class Brandon Smith was a 6'3 defensive back who had 4.5 speed. Could have easily been a good one. I think we have had a decent amount of 4 stars who have ended up being pretty bad/never seeing the field (think this is most evident on defense...primarily the secondary and at linebacker).

Don't mean to thread jack, but I don't have enough points to start one. Did any one catch that tweet from Shane Morris a little bit ago? I don't know if he's referring to this blog, but he says something along the lines of " that blog about the 2012 recruiting class are ridiculous. Don't talk about teenagers you've never met. #GetALife"

There was a thread posted early this morning about Twitter on a blog we don't have to name. Basicly it was a big long list of tweets from 2012 recruits who had posted things along the same lines as Yuri Wright, just a guy stiring up shit to get page views.

Opposite approach-- the player who most out-performed his hype was probably David Harris. Anonymous unranked 3-star who became the best linebacker of the post-Bo era. You know, we never really had too many of those guys, did we? Most of the stars at Michigan were star recruits.